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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
‛Gaza: A Meditation on Spirit and Survival’: The images from Gaza reveal a desolate landscape beyond comprehension: an endless, treeless expanse buried beneath millions of tons of concrete and rebar, whose suffocating scale overwhelms the conscience. Also: ‛Israeli Soldiers Describe Continued Targeted Killings of Palestinians in Gaza’.
On 25 March 2026, the United Nations passed a Ghanaian-led resolution naming the transatlantic slave trade a crime against humanity. Moving the resolution was a strategic masterstroke that forced the Global North to defend the capitalist foundations of its historical wealth, exposing in the process a profound phase of moral fragmentation within the West.
Across the United States, politicians routinely claim there is no money for universal healthcare, affordable housing, modern infrastructure, debt-free education or social welfare programmes needed to address poverty, unemployment and growing insecurity. Yet, when it comes to war, resources seem virtually unlimited.
A counter revolution is consolidating itself in the Americas—firing drones and missiles at farmers and fishermen, plotting internal destabilization campaigns against insubordinate governments, and manufacturing lies and fever dreams about some bullshit they’re calling narcoterrorism.
In less than two years, Mexico’s first woman president has instituted numerous social welfare improvements, while her rhetoric on foreign policy consistently supports Global South nations such as Cuba and Venezuela, as they face barbaric assault from the world’s hegemon, the USA.
Nobody, inside Venezuela or abroad, possesses a definitive answer to the central question looming over all of us: How can the anti-imperialist—and ultimately socialist—project initiated in 1999 in Venezuela continue advancing under conditions of U.S. imperialism’s expanded military capacity and its new willingness to cross former red lines in the region?
‛Congo’s Cobalt Feeds Big Tech. Its People Face Ebola’: The people of Congo and Uganda are paying the price for what was done to their countries. Not by nature—but by imperialist powers, banks, mining monopolies, drug companies and the capitalist governments that serve them. Also: ‛Ebola and Imperialism’.
The latest crackdown in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir has stripped away any pretence that the inhabitants of “Azad” Kashmir possess any autonomy or agency. With one brutal stroke, the Pakistani military has demonstrated that the region is no different from the rest of Pakistan, where dissent is met with bullets, brutality, and no dialogue.
Despite the challenges, the women that researchers spoke to had not given up. Some are finding quiet ways to keep teaching.
People with disabilities are neither a minority nor an exception. They are a vast constellation of human experience – one-sixth of humanity (1.3 billion people). And yet, they are too often spoken of as if they exist at the margins of history. In truth, they stand at its centre.
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